The One with the American Crafts NSD 2015 Blog Hop!

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Blog Hop #2 for today!

It's a special day in the Scrapbook world! Why? Today is National Scrapbook Day!

The American Crafts Design Team is sharing past favorite layouts using AC supplies along with accompanying challenges and I immediately thought of this "HAPPY" layout using the very first Amy Tangerine collection. Still a fave!

CHALLENGE: USE CHEVRONS!

GIVEAWAY!

What's a blog hop without a little giveaway? :)

Leave a comment on this post and tell me how many years you've been scrappin' - I'll pick a winner next Saturday May 9th 2015 and update THIS post with the lucky winner so be sure to check back here. Thanks for hopping by and happy NSD 2015!

Great challenge! I've been scrapbooking for exactly two years now! I mean, I have started hoarding all kinds of scrapbook products already about 1 year before, but it was NSD 2013 when all the challenges and inspiration out there actually made me create my first LO! :)

Gorgeous page - love all those colors. AC does always supply us with such happy colors. I started back in in 2000 but didn't get serious about it until 2009 when I started blogging and found all the online community.

I just kinda started scrapping about a year or two ago. But I love it and I feel like watching you and Wilna has helped me immensely! Thanks for all of your inspiration. I also love your blog and instagram pictures. I feel like I'm traveling with you and I love it! Please keep sharing.

Oh, what a beautiful page! I have been scrapping about 14 years now. I can't believe it's been that long, but yes, it has! I was trying to remember when I started and it was shortly before my oldest daughter got married 14 years ago. I made a wedding scrapbook featuring her husband and her growing up and their friends' memories. Techniques and things have changed, but that book is irreplaceable! Now I'm scrapping her four children too!

I've been scrapbooking since it started....can't believe how much it has changed over the years. Has to be close to 20 years or more and I love it so much! It's my 'ME' time and keeps me sane. Thank you for the giveaway!

Love the layout! I am in awe of your talent to do the chevron like that! Wow!I started scrapping about 17 years ago. I've been on a "crafting break" for the last few years, but I am back doing what I love to do most! LOVE scrapping!

I started scrapbooking in 1998 when my brother had cancer as a way to distract myself and focus on something beautiful. Here I am 17 years later, still recording memories - how of grandchildren. Thanks for this opportunity!

Your awesome use of patterned paper always amazes me, Paige!Great challenge!I still have my albums from college and my first job - all magnetic albums with bits of souvenirs and stuff tucked in - and that was '91! But I remember making the switch to patterned paper and "traditional" scrapbooking back when my son was a baby...so it's been at least since '99! Happy NSD!

I have been scrapping since 2012 and wish I had started earlier :) I love your take on chevrons- I haven't usually been a fan of chevrons- but your layout inspires me to give it a try. Love your work so much! Thanks for the chance to win :)

That's some gorgeous patterned paper and a fabulous layout! Thanks so much for the inspiration and for the chance to win! I've been scrapbooking since 2004 so 11 years now... I actually started scrapbooking after my father passed away. I wanted to do something special for my mom to remember him by... so I made a scrapbook. Mind you, my style has changed drastically since then, but I still hold that very first album close to my heart. :)

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS layout Paige!!!LOVE your BIG patterned paper chevrons!!!I think I have been crafting all my life, been a "serious" scrapper for about 15 years now.THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION and the chance to win some CRAFTY AWESOMENESS :)

I actually am a cardmaker who gets loads of inspiration from LOs!! I've been cardmaking for years, but have just gotten serious about it in the last 2 years. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful prize!!<3 J

I've been scrapping for nine years. We were in the process of adopting and part of our training was to create a scrapbook about our family that they would give to the child to get to know us before we met them.

I had such a blast making it that I've been obsessed ever since. Greatest hobby ever!

I've been scrapping on and off for years mixing painting, paper crafting and card making with scrapbooking. Its amazing how being blessed with grandchildren can spark your passion to get back in the craft room and create!

I guess it depends. I started making my first album in 2008 but I truly embraced scrapbooking last year when I started learning all new techniques and included more dimensional embellishment to my layouts. This opened a whole new world for me and now I absolutely love scrapbooking. Thanks for sharing.

I just started scrapbooking about a couple of months ago! I fell in love with the idea of scrapbooking a couple of years back and consulted my friends but we all agreed that it was an expensive hobby (I was still schooling.) But now I subscribe to the belief that I don't need lots of embellishment to scrapbook and is currently having a good time scrapbooking!

welcome!

I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship. We just returned from Grafenwöhr, Germany after being stationed there for 4 years and we LOVED traveling all around Europe! Now we're stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee called Fancy Free, Take Me Away, Oh My Heart, and Turn the Page. I’m a blogger for Stamp & Scrapbook Expo, a teacher at Big Picture Classes and Craftsy, on the design team of Scrapbook & Cards Today and Kerri Bradford Studio, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!